He said "there can be no plausible claim that this case was somehow an injustice", calling her treatment "standard procedure" even for diplomatic personnel, claiming further that during her strip and cavity searches she had been "accorded courtesies well beyond what other defendants are accorded, most of whom are American citizens.” He claimed these procedures were " standard practice for every defendant, rich or poor, American or not, in order to make sure that no prisoner keeps anything on his person that could harm anyone, including himself". The Federal Prosecutor, Preet Bharara, claimed agents had arrested her "in the most discreet way possible", having doing so in full view of her daughter, her daughter's friends, and most of the teachers and students. She was arrested and handcuffed while dropping her daughter off at school, was taken to a police station and strip-searched, given a body cavity search, then put into a cell with drug dealers and held there until she was finally released on $250,000 bail. But then she was suddenly charged with submitting false documents to obtain a work visa for a housekeeper. On late 2013 an Indian diplomat, 39-year-old Devyani Khobragade, was the Deputy Consul-General in New York, and by all reports had an excellent reputation and was honorably discharging her consular duties. This article is only a brief introduction with a few examples of hundreds that could be cited. We see this most recently in the so-called "sanctions" the US so freely applies to countries and individuals, being no more than illegal rampaging and looting.īut there is another category that may not be as visible and yet is indicative of an extreme breakdown of the rule of law, this applying to the category of "diplomatic immunity", real or imagined, where the US government absolutely treads on a one-way street. In days gone by, this lawlessness was usually deeply buried and obfuscated but today it seems there is no longer even a pretense of any rule of law. This is so obviously true to outsiders looking in, and is even more true of American official conduct abroad, but I find myself wondering about the extent to which Americans generally are aware of this and how it is perceived. In a recent podcast, Kevin Barrett stated that the rule of law has disappeared in the US.
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